Hasbro made a big mistake with Jeff Kline, he acts like he is the only one in charge. When he made the remark about the whole when main characters die they stay dead. Especially when Hasbro said they would never keep Optimus dead. So if that guy and his crew is on the next one I will pass on that one as well as the beast hunters. And I know I am not the only one a lot of my friends are fed up with how this is going.
You might want to re-read is very first answer It's too bad you didn't like the show--your friends too--their are way more children interested in the show, however, so it will go on--not this particular show per se, but the next one and the one after that....
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a sequel. After all it makes sense seeing how Hasbro's keen on sticking with this Aligend countinuity for a while. For the people who aren't happy about the TFP crew working on the next show let's see how the show turns out first. I know TFP did things a lot of people aren't happy about but most of the flaws may have been due to Hasbro butting in and the flaws that they personally made wll likely learn from it.
That's true if they're expecting the story telling to be on par with MTMTE or RID however like some people said that's not an excuse to do lazy work on a show. Though at the same time we can't expect it to go to either HBO style of writing either.
I really do like Prime and if it's a sequel i'll be happy. But as others stated i'd want at least for Hasbro to stick with the aligned continiuty, i'm pretty tired of constant reboots myself. But for the love of god, let it not be anything like IDW. As much as i find IDW's books to be well written,i don't like the direction many of the original characters are taken to. One good thing though about IDW is Drift. It's always good to have new characters added to the mythos and i'd like to see him intoduced to an animated series. Come to think of it he would fit better for Wheeljack's role in Prime
The writers can only do so much, you know? The said that they want to have a show in which parents who were fans in the 80s can watch with their children now. Not many parents want to expose their children to a lot of violence and death. The same people I see argue that the writing is lazy are the same points pissed that character X didn't die in this episode or that. My five year old doesn't want anyone to die, as he likes everyone. I do too Personally, I don't see how killing main characters makes a show better anyway...
I did like the show when it first started I liked it very much, but first of all some of you do not understand what is going on with the show. This guy uses gimmicks and decoys for thie third season, and quite frankly I detest people who use decoys to fool people into staying with a show. And as far as someone on here saying I want a different style or whatever was stated what I want is TRUTHFUL people not a bunch of BS about telling the fans one thing and doing another plain and simple.
As long as Marty Isenberg is given a promotion to be one of the head writers then that'd be perfect. Seriously the Prime writers aren't the worse I've seen, they actually look like they want to do the franchise justice. Seriously Jeff please call up Marty.
My take on the interview, 'blah blah blah', nothing new or definitive, same as always. Yep Auto, having Marty full time would be fantastic.
Moreprimeland, your avatar makes me dizzy. I think they can go a few more seasons with the current style and creators. But not too long. If you have a target market of Children, you have to change it up because eventually most of your target audience will get to the point that they won't be watching it, as they grow up. Whats more you need to change the look and styling of the toys because you don't want it getting stale. Sure we can see the differences between the long fronted Primes of the movies and the long fronteds Primes of Prime. But to parents they might figure its enough like the toy they bought the kid last year.
Other interviews made it sound like that. Hasbro probably asked them to word it differently so people wouldn't start complaining that a toy company wants to sell toys in their show.
If they stay with the same group, a more coherent, relevant, carry-through plot line would be nice. As it went through Prime became more and more lacking in developing a purposeful story.
No, I wanted GOOD story-telling, like in Animated and Beast Wars. and... that's painful to say, because those weren't without their flaws either. It's sad when moderately good quality is so rare that it's exceptional and unrealistic. What's their track record now? *looks stuff up* Oh my god! It's been 4 years since Animated ended?? *sob* Sep 1984 - Feb 1987 - ~95 eps. G1 nothing (but 3 Rebirth eps and G2 reaired eps.) Apr 1996 - May 1999 - 52 eps. Beast Wars Sep 1999 - May 2000 - 26 eps. Beast Machines Sep 2001 - Mar 2002 - 39 eps. RID Aug 2002 - Oct 2003 - 52 eps. Armada Jan 2004 - June 2005 - 51 eps. Energon Sep 2005 - Oct 2006 - 52 eps. Cybertron Jan 2008 - May 2009 - 39 eps. Animated Nov 2010 - ??? 2013 - 65 eps. TFPrime 471 eps. total 2 good shows in almost 30 years. Bleeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhh! Although per episode, that's almost 1/5th of them! :I (19.3%) I JUST want good writing! I could take unlikeable characters, a small cast, and bad visuals (hand drawn or 3D. Hell, even Flash-like.) if the writing were good. Looking on the wiki, they all sound pretty mediocre. Joseph Kuhr worked on some really great shows, but with the odds of his other coworkers it doesn't matter. "...many Warner Bros. and DC Comics animated series, including The Zeta Project, Justice League, The Batman, and Batman: The Brave and The Bold. " Steven Melching? I dunno. "In addition to Beast Machines, he has also written for X-Men, Extreme Ghostbusters, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, The Mummy: The Animated Series, The Batman, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Currently, he is one of the many writers for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He also co-wrote the seminal Star Wars fan-film TROOPS (In which Jess Harnell stars as a Stormtrooper). " Hahahah! "Shoulda seen this comin'." It's already over half done. You think it'll mature? Usually that takes 3 FULL seasons and this show doesn't have that time. (Like a Star Trek TNG or DS9. In my top 3 sci-fi shows of all time, but I won't even watch early seasons because they're so horrible.) The mistakes aren't due to Hasbro, they're due to mediocre head writers that were mediocre before. Yeah. Fire them and get good ones who can only do so much BETTER.
I miss the ol' body style from the 80's shows, I wish they would return to that but with updated vehicle modes. the character developement had a much broader ranger. The personalities were always so different.Ngsmoov did a great job with that,As fan project. but i bet this team could do awsome as i loved TF Prime. hopefully we might see the rise of galvatron and Rodimus prime with Optimus(peter cullen and frank welker returning to there respective rolls of course)as i see this as the next logical step in the transformers story.
Oh and a larger cast would be nice,I loved the classic Optimus roll call before rolling out its what made the show for me and not so much the cliched one liners we see now. I mean what would you rather hear "freedom is the right of all centian beings"or "Autobots cliffjumper,hound,jazz,wheeljack,ironhide,bumblebee Transform and roolll oooutt" send shviers down my spine lol
I'd prefer a return to standard cel-based animation if means we can get a cast larger that the generic 5 bots. Hell, why not just start with 7-8 characters each side? It makes more sense to have these characters there to start with, with little to no need to introduce 'new' characters later, because there's already a good handful to play around with.
The funny thing is that I remember at one point people complained about the huge cast in AEC with so little characterization. Aaron Archer said that to get less characters we'd have to be willing to buy the same character at multiple price points. In a way, I miss the AEC days when it came to the sheer number of characters... Surely there must be some kind of happy medium? Animated had the right idea of having different squads with a Prime as a leader...
